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...Keith Funston knows few Wall Streeters, he does know at least one who counts-Investment Banker Sidney Weinberg, a senior partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Weinberg, who brought to Washington many of the businessmen working for Defense Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson, also recommended Funston to the exchange. He thought Funston had just the right business and academic background...
...South Dakota banker, Funston worked his way through Trinity, graduated among the top ten of his class at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He was purchasing director of the $20-million-a-year Sylvania Electric Products Inc. when Weinberg brought him into the War Production Board during World War II. Funston spent 2½ years "at the other end of Donald Nelson's buzzer," got on smoothly with top-flight industrialists and Washington politicos...
...many fat job offers from private industry. But when Trinity's trustees asked him to be president of the college at $15,000 a year, loyalty to his alma mater won out. One of his first official acts was to give an honorary degree to Sidney Weinberg...
Weyman's real name:Stephen Weinberg. His lifetime profession: impostor. Brooklyn-born Weinberg started his career in 1910 by posing as a naval attaché in the Serbian embassy in Washington. As a U.S. consul in Morocco, he was received in New York harbor by U.S. fleet units. Once his Brooklyn accent betrayed him at a banquet at the Hotel Astor, where he was posing as the U.S. consul general from Rumania. He was exposed, but managed to stay out of jail. In 1921, he got into the White House by posing as a "U.S. protocol representative," introduced Afghanistan...
During World War II, Weinberg taught draft dodgers how to simulate deafness, heart trouble and other disorders rating 4-F classification, at fees from $200 to $2,000. Caught, he was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1943. Paroled in 1948, Weinberg, still on probation, drifted casually into the United Nations. Last week he drifted out again. His U.N. credentials were revoked. But many of his Lake Success acquaintances felt like the prison warden who once said: "He has a splendid brain, only it works in the wrong channels...